Shakbout is a Bottle Born citizen of the Inhabited Systems. An artificial lifeform, a second-class citizen among the natural born lifeforms. Working in the city drains of Mengchi , Shakbout stumbles onto dangerous information of a plot to overthrow the the Standing Committee that rules Theigler.
Shakbout is forced undercover at the campaign of the United Platform for Citizen Respect, a bottle born political party contesting the upcoming election to the Standing Committee that rules Theigler. At the campaign Shakbout encounters the most dangerous bottle born terrorist in the Inhabited Systems. They have a job for Shakbout, to commit a crime that will ignite a war between factions of the natural and the bottle born lifeform s across the Inhabited Systems.
Unfortunately for Shakbout he also has a secret that he has been hiding for a decade. A secret that could lead to the destruction of all lifeforms in the Inhabited Systems. No longer able to hide Shakbout has a choice, fight or die.
